On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Aron Ahmadia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Another side-note. > > > > We have made some progress in pulling out some of the major external > > dependencies (SuperLU, hypre, Metis) into their own packages in HashDist, > > which has been helpful for speeding up rebuilds. As others have noted, > > configure is the real killer for PETSc builds. > > > > I just pushed an update for parallel configure (using only 2 threads right > now) to next. We will see if the > builds blow up. >
cool.. configure time on my laptop for a simple build reduced from: <master> real 1m4.681s user 0m27.292s sys 0m22.514s to: <next> real 0m39.509s user 0m24.133s sys 0m19.685s 'real' time is still longer than 'user' time - so presumably this will also benefit 'single' core machines [if any].. Satish
